>>11982007
PS2 is a meme and most of its classics are incredibly overrated. 6th gen is when vidya started going to shit. I know it was your first console and it hurts you to read this, but it's true.
Everyone who says gen 6 is bad has a poor understanding of calculus one / graph theory
Early in gaming the quality of gaming low but it was accelerating rapidly
You could see the quality acceleration slowing down as early as generation 3 but the quality was still high. It wasn't until gen 6 that the quality acceleration struck zero and then slowly turned negative (the peak of a bell curve). This doesn't mean that the quality suddenly dropped but rather it gradually started decreasing at a larger and larger magnitude Gen 7 managed to remove all acceleration so the quality of games has remained constant since then around the same level as Gen III
>>11982129
Totally arbitrary to draw a line on where things went downhill because even a Link to the Past is a casualized baby zoomer game compared to the original.
>>11982012
This, PS1 was a perfect middle ground between the NES/SNES and the PS2 philosophies for video game design, you get the best of both worlds just like Hannah Montana and, if you had to pick a single library, this one would be the most complete, the one where I'd feel where I'm not missing out on anything.
>no stealth games that isn't a mediocre demake of MGS1 and the worst versions of Splinter Cell >0 3D action games, no ninja gaiden, no dmc, nothing >5 total RPGs, with one being a port from the Dreamcast >only open game with a massive map is Wind Waker; hardware literally too weak to run games like GTA3 >garbage d-pad makes playing fighting games awful >only platformer of note is Sunshine and nickelodeon shovelware multiplats
this console unironically has one of the weakest libraries once you dig any deeper than the 4-5 Nintendo first parties everyone shills. even the Xbox had the courtesy of having the best console versions of Splinter Cell, PC RPGs, and Ninja Gaiden Black
>>11981986 (OP)
recapped a scph-5501 last night, picture was so bright and beautiful and the colors were insanely vibrant. Read the games perfectly and not a single stutter in an FMV. What a fine ass console.
RPG :FF7
Tactical :FF tactics
2D plateformer:Rayman
3D plateformer:Ape escape
Action plateformer:Mega man X4
Metroidvania: Castlevania SOTN
FPS: Exhumed
TPS:Ghost in the shell
Shmup:Gradius Gaiden
2D fighting:sf alpha 3
3D Fighting:Tekken 3
Infiltration :MGS
Beat em up:captain commando
Puzzle game:IQ final
Kart racer:Crash team racing
Racing : ridge racer type 4
PC port:Diablo
>>11982462 >This piece of shit console that finished dead last in its gen was heavily criticized by fans and reviewers alike, but they all forgot about one key piece of information: I had it when I was 10 years old and it is very special to me. This is my essay on Console: A Misunderstood Hidden Gem
>>11983531
zoomers can't literally play anything that isn't le REALISTIC 3D, unless it's some FOMO indie with shit graphics that gives them social cred
Friendly reminder that sony butchered most of the devs from the ps1 era to appeal to the retard market that would compromise the majority of the ps2 audience.
Ps1 was a good trap that produced an amazing library in terms of genre diversity. If Sega and Nintendo weren't retarded, the ps2 might have been a worthy successor the ps1.
